Virgil's Experience: Nature and History: Times, Names, and PlacesThis book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It argues that Lucretius and Virgil affected a revolution in Western sensibility; claiming that a book about poetry should be a book about life, it combines scholarship and precision with a sense of the importance of literature and its capacity to enhance our understanding of our past and of ourselves. |
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... Earth and Country 297 8 An Italian's Experience : Land and Nation 341 PART FIVE : The Aeneid 387 9 A Trojan's Experience : The Wanderings of Aeneas 389 10 Beyond Experience : The Underworld 445 II A Trojan in Italy : Latinus ' Kingdom ...
... Earth and Country 297 8 An Italian's Experience : Land and Nation 341 PART FIVE : The Aeneid 387 9 A Trojan's Experience : The Wanderings of Aeneas 389 10 Beyond Experience : The Underworld 445 II A Trojan in Italy : Latinus ' Kingdom ...
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... earth , and landscape — may be a response to his sense of the loneliness that threatens human beings . Looking in these terms , we may perhaps better understand how it is that he can blend melancholy and hope . He displays some ...
... earth , and landscape — may be a response to his sense of the loneliness that threatens human beings . Looking in these terms , we may perhaps better understand how it is that he can blend melancholy and hope . He displays some ...
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... earth , is also a formidable power.37 In another place Aeneas himself compares his prospect of the fall of Troy to a torrent in spate flattening crops and fields and tearing forests headlong.38 Virgil is ready to show us all this , the ...
... earth , is also a formidable power.37 In another place Aeneas himself compares his prospect of the fall of Troy to a torrent in spate flattening crops and fields and tearing forests headlong.38 Virgil is ready to show us all this , the ...
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... earth put forth fresh blossoming grass and dewy clover and crocus and hyacinth thick and soft , which held them up from the ground . On this they lay , and wrapped themselves in a cloud , fair and golden ; and glittering dewdrops fell ...
... earth put forth fresh blossoming grass and dewy clover and crocus and hyacinth thick and soft , which held them up from the ground . On this they lay , and wrapped themselves in a cloud , fair and golden ; and glittering dewdrops fell ...
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... Earth the female , and the rain is the life - giving semen which impregnates the ground that it may bring forth crops and flowers . Fertility cults are excluded from the Homeric epics ; Demeter , the earth mother , never appears in them ...
... Earth the female , and the rain is the life - giving semen which impregnates the ground that it may bring forth crops and flowers . Fertility cults are excluded from the Homeric epics ; Demeter , the earth mother , never appears in them ...
Contents
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A Transpadanes Experience | 73 |
The Neoteric Experience | 131 |
Energy and Delight | 211 |
The Conquest of Death | 252 |
Earth and Country | 297 |
Land and Nation | 341 |
The Wanderings of Aeneas | 389 |
Latinus Kingdom | 463 |
Evanders Kingdom | 515 |
The Later Aeneid | 564 |
Virgil and the Poets | 593 |
Virgil Augustus and the Future | 631 |
Labor Improbus | 678 |
Index of Passages Cited | 685 |
Index of Greek and Latin Words | 704 |
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Virgil's Experience: Nature and History, Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns No preview available - 1998 |
Virgil's Experience: Nature and History, Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns No preview available - 1998 |
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